DGA Consulting, a subsidiary of a Pittsburgh-area company that opened a Tempe, Ariz., office in January, immediately booked a regional piece of business: a contract to handle the civil engineering work for a $350-million transmission project in northern New Mexico.

Although many major power-line jobs in the Southwest have been delayed because of a drop in electric demand, there has been an increase in projects in the planning stages, especially smaller projects such as the Lucky Corridor line in New Mexico, says Peter Kandaris, a DGA Consulting manager. Smaller projects face fewer hurdles than larger ones and tend to have better chances of being built, he says.

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